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Wednesday, 28 March 2012

Installing Exchange Server 2010 SP2

Installing Exchange Server 2010 SP2

Overview

Before Installing Exchange 2010 SP2

Now, there are a couple of things that you may be prompted to before the
actual installation of SP2. For instance, if you're performing a typical
Exchange installation which includes the Mailbox Server Role and the Hub
Transport Server Role, you're going to need the Microsoft
Office 2010 Filter Packs. It's not an absolute necessity but Microsoft is
going to recommend it during the installation and it's nice to have that done
ahead of time.
If you're going to set up a Unified Messaging Server, then there are a couple
of other things that need to be installed, like the various speech engines and
so on. But in our case, we're just going to do a straight, typical install.
Now, let's go over to TechNet and what we're going to do here is quite
similar to what we've done in Exchange 2010 RTM and with Exchange Service Pack
1:

you open up PowerShell,

type in Import-Module, ServerManager,
and

copy the code provided by TechNet

The code you copy will depend on the kind of installation you’re doing. For
the typical installation involving the Client Access, Hub Transport, and Mailbox
server roles, it’s the one we enclosed in a red box below.

So instead of manually going in and setting up the roles and features, this
code will do those tasks for you.
At this point, I’d like to direct your attention to one little piece in the
code named Web-WMI (It’s what the arrow is pointing at in the
screenshot.). It’s the only thing that actually changes between Service Pack 1
and Service Pack 2 for this command. That’s because, in the Client Access Server
Role, this is a feature that has to be enabled.
That’s going to be straightforward if you’re setting up a brand new server
like what we’re doing now. Like we said earlier, you just open up PowerShell and
copy the necessary commands. However, if you’re going to do an upgrade instead,
it wouldn’t be necessary to run the entire code. In that case, it would be more
practical do go in and adjust the server roles to include the WMI.
Going back to our topic, once you’ve taken cared of the intermediate steps we
mentioned earlier, you’re good to go for the installation proper.

Installing Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2

I assume you’ve downloaded SP2 from Microsoft, popped it into the system, and
extracted it. Once you’ve done that, kick off the installation by the
double-clicking the installation file.
When the splash screen appears, click Install Microsoft
Exchange.
Then when the Introduction screen appears, click
Next.
Accept the license agreement and click Next.
When you get to the Error Reporting screen, you might want
to click on the option that says Yes. But in the meantime,
here, we’ll just click No.
In the Installation Type screen, leave the Exchange Server
installation type to its default (Typical Exchange Server
Installation).
Now, see that check box at the bottom that says Automatically install
Windows Server roles and features required for Exchange? This is
something we could have kicked off instead of running those PowerShell commands.
But if, like me, you’d like to have a better handle on the entire process, then
the PowerShell commands are more appropriate.
Click Next.
Enter a name for your Exchange organization and click
Next.

Since we don’t have any client computers running Outlook 2003, we just click
No. Obviously, if you have those, you’ll want to click
Yes. Click Next.

At this point, you don’t have to worry about configuring the Internet-facing
Client Access server. That’s something you can do later on, so just click
Next.
In a production environment, you would want to take advantage of this
Customer Experience Improvement Program. But for now, we’ll
just choose not to join the program. Click Next.
The system will then conduct some readiness checks. Once that’s done, go
ahead and click the Install button.
That’s going to take a few minutes, so you might want to grab a cup of coffee
while the installation is underway.
When everything’s done, click Finish.
You will have to reboot the server before you put it into production. But in
the meantime, let me show you a couple of things first in the Exchange
Management Console (You may bring it up now).
You won’t see a significant difference in the set up of the Exchange
Management Console compared to what you had in Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2010
SP1, but there actually are a few things that are new here.
For example, if you go to the Mailbox node, you’ll see a new
tab named Address Book Policies.
Then if you go one node higher, in the Organization
Configuration, you’ll see another new tab called Hybrid
Configuration.

Conclusion

There’s actually more but we’re done with what we came here to do. That’s how
you do a straight install of Exchange Server 2010 SP2. I hope you learned a lot
from this post and I look forward to have you again next time.